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Semi-detached : the aesthetics of virtual experience since Dickens
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- Creator
- John Plotz
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 329 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781400887880, 0691159467, 9780691159461, 1400887887
- OCLC
- on1005077439, on1012424587
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index.
- Introduction: through bright glass -- Pertinent fiction: short stories into novels -- Mediated involvement: John Stuart Mill's partial sociability -- Visual Interlude I / Double visions: Pre-Raphaelite objectivity and its pitfalls -- Virtual provinces, actually -- Experiments in semi-detachment -- Visual Interlude II / "This new-old industry": William Morris's Kelmscott Press -- H. G. Wells, realist of the fantastic -- Overtones and empty rooms: Willa Cather's layers -- Visual Interlude III / The great stone face: Buster Keaton, semi-detached -- Conclusion: apparitional criticism